Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Environment film festival concludes.

NEW DELHI: The environmental film festival ‘Vatavaran 2007’ concluded here on Sunday with Senani Hegde’s ‘Wild Dog Diaries’ bagging the Best Film award. The award carries a cash prize of Rs.1.5 lakh.

Other winners at the biennial festival included ‘Earth Calling – Episode Coorg’ by Rita Banerjee and Shilpi Sharma (Delhi Chief Minister’s Award for the Best Documentary in Environmental Conservation) and ‘Tiger – The Death Chronicles’ by Krishnendu Bose (Wildlife Conservation Category).

The Forum of Environmental Journalists of India and CMS Academy Award for Young Environmental Journalist (Print and Broadcast) went to Amar Jyoti and Bahar Dutt respectively. The Revelation Award was won by ‘Cherub of the Mist’, a beautifully shot documentary on the reclusive red panda by Naresh Bedi.

Suresh Elamon’s ‘Angels in Tigerland’ won the award for Best Cinematography while Umesh Aggarwal’s ‘The Whistle Blowers’ won for Best Editing.

The Special Jury Award was won by Gaurav Jani’s ‘Riding Solo to the Top of the World’. Jury Special Mention Awards were handed out to Kalpana Subramaniam’s Turtle in a Soup’ and Gurmeet Sapal’s ‘Leopard in the Lurch’.

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Asiatic Lion Protection Society

Asiatic Lion Protection Society (ALPS) founded in year 2006, is an NGO working mainly for conservation of Asiatic Lion in Gir forest and in Indian Zoos. Main objectives: To compile max. information about Asiatic Lion plus Gir forest and spread it through out the globe by website, blogs, Wikipedia, yahoo groups etc To help protection & conservation of Asiatic Lion & Gir forest by taking up projects like - Building parapets on open wells. - To contact and request nationalize banks of Gir area to put a condition to built parapet on open wells while sanctioning loan to farmers - At the time of festivals, organize camps near temples like Kankai, Banej & Tulsi Shyam to educate tourist to protect wildlife. - To distribute information and awareness leaflets at check-post to visitors using jungle roads. - Make representation & persuade Govt. to make Gir 'A Plastic Free Zone. Similarly contact local civil bodies to make their areas A Plastic free zone. To inform authorities about illegal activities inside the jungle like wood-cutting, removal of forest produce, poaching, illegal grazing etc. To inform authorities about injured wild animals. Also educate locals of Gir forests as well as school/college students to conserve Gir forest, it's wildlife and to represent to Govt. in favor of trans-location of Asiatic Lion to some other good place in Gujarat. P S: We welcome your comments & posts and expect that our conversation will follow the general rules of respectful civil discourse. You’re fully responsible for everything that you submit here in your comments & posts.

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